Following tonight’s live house party on Spotify with Sebastian Ingrosso and Alesso, we caught up with Sebastian to ask a few questions. Check it out below!

So, how do you feel? Happy with tonight’s house party?

Absolutely! The most important part for me is to constantly interact with my fans, and this was an innovative and cool way of doing so. We played a lot of good music and the listeners could vote on what to hear next and chat with us. It was great to play our new song “Calling” as well!

It was awesome that so many of our fans joined us and we hope they had as much fun as Alesso and I did!

It seems like a good way to interact and chat with your fans.

Oh, it’s a blast! It’s always nice to be able to use new technology and social media as a way to reach out to our fans. Tonight they even got the chance to participate and decide what music we played, which is even cooler. Plus, we get the chance to reach out to a much wider audience, whether they are at a pre-party or in the basement of their mother’s house – Stockholm, Amsterdam or London? It doesn’t matter!

A large chunk of tonight’s audience dream of becoming DJs themselves, what’s your advice to all those who want to become the next Ingrosso?

Becoming a DJ takes a lot of time and it won’t come overnight, you have to do your own thing and never give up. I’ve been doing this for over ten years and I’m still evolving. You have to find your own unique style and that takes time.

Remember, there are so many people out there who want to become DJs. It might be easier to get started with all the technological development, but ultimately it’s not enough to be able to beatmix to become a good DJ, it’s about having fun, having a feeling for the music and the audience you’re playing for. You have to feel what gets them dancing!

Who’s your ideal pre-party guest?

My friends, because I don’t see them enough! But yeah, it would be really cool to sit and chat with someone like Paul McCartney and listen to the same music and have a beer together!

What do you think is the future for artists wanting to connect with fans?

That’s impossible to predict – just look at how much everything has changed in the past five years! I just hope a lot of cool new ways appear, because the fans are the most important thing for me.

You can listen to all songs recorded during the event by clicking the link below!

Rather than an annotated playlist for the month that was, this month Drowned in Sound has compiled a selection of playlists to soundtrack your wet summer mornings and the turning of grey afternoon into indian summer evenings…

Drowned in Sound 2010 – Q2
Earlier this year, we compiled a playlist featuring the best bits of the first quarter of the year (you’ll find that one here) and due to the overwhelming response, we’ve compiled a playlist for Q2, which explores the swirled electronics of Ikonika, LCD Soundsystem and Emeralds before exploring the big guitars and broken hearts of The National and DiS’ one-to-watch tip for 2010/Mercury Music Prize nominee, Villagers.Click to play this playlist

Reading & Leeds Festival 2010
If you’re heading to Reading & Leeds festival this week or plan to watch the coverage on TV/via the web, here’s a playlist with our picks from the line-up get you in the mood. Or if you have a premium account, to stick on your iPod in the car instead of listening to The Get Up Kids’ back catalogue. Click to play this playlist

On January 7th the Grammis are being handed out in Stockholm and you can be a part of it. The Grammis are Sweden’s biggest music awards event of the year and Spotify has 5 pairs of tickets to hand out to our users for the gala ceremony. The awards are being held at Hovet and all you need to do to enter is send your Spotify username along with your address and phone number to contest@spotify.com and we will notify the winners with instructions on how they can get their tickets by the 6th of January.